BOUBACAR AND HASSANE: THE EXTRAORDINARY SURGERY OF CONJOINED GUINEAN TWINS

Conakry, Guinea. Fatoumata Barry is a young mother. Her beautiful twins, Boubacar and Hassane, were born on January 12th.

However, they are connected by the liver. This is the very first time that conjoined twins have ever survived in this poverty-stricken country.

The technical conditions on-site make it impossible to carry out the surgery that would separate them.

Their only hope is to undergo surgery abroad, this is where we come in!

You are their only hope and we ask for your help to offer them a new life.Conakry, Guinea. Fatoumata Barry is a young mother. Her beautiful twins, Boubacar and Hassane, were born on January 12th.

However, they are connected by the liver. This is the very first time that conjoined twins have ever survived in this poverty-stricken country.

The technical conditions on-site make it impossible to carry out the surgery that would separate them.

Their only hope is to undergo surgery abroad, this is where we come in!

You are their only hope and we ask for your help to offer them a new life.

Please go to our campaign on Indiegogo.

Thank you for your support. Children should never be victims of their birthplace, condemned to suffer from their lack of access to healthcare.

UPDATE

Thanks to an outstanding surge of solidarity, La Chaîne de l’Espoir and the APHP-Paris managed to finance the Boubacar and Hassane’s transfer to the Necker Children’s Hospital (Paris, France) to undergo the delicate surgery that would separate them.

The team of Professor Yves Aigrain began a real surgical marathon that lasted 11 hours. And it is Dr Agbo Panzo, Chief of the digestive surgery unit of the Donka Hospital in Guinea, who in a final symbolic gesture separated the twins.

This wonderful achievement was a medical and surgical challenge, but also a human and financial one and it would not have been made possible without such an outpouring of support and generosity.

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